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Prompt: Should the government be responsible for making sure that people lead healthy lives?
Debated amongst the greatest philosophical minds, such as Karl Marx, Montesqiue, John Locke, Voltaire and several other day-long ponderers has been the question: how much governmental intervention is too much? Citizens of nations all around the world have attempted to synthesize a government balanced in its governance over the people without birthing a toxic, precarious political situation. Because of humanity’s penchant for abuse of power, governments have little to no responsibility to aid the health of their constituents.
No matter how cruel the aformentioned statement appears, it dwarves to the cruelty of the heinous Bolshevik, Soviet regime. The grotesque disregard for human rights by the Soviet regime appears evident in Alexander Solzehnitsyn’s novel Cancer Ward. Within the socialist Moscow government, the U.S.S.R.'s totalitarian structure and direct intervention into personal matters, such as the well-being of a citizen, permitted the government to implement Draconian policies in medical practice. As evident by Cancer Ward, the Kremlin would attempt to undermine all health support for enemies of the state, giving these unfortunate individuals minimal food, water with cholera, and other inhumane practice to further cement their rule, and terrify others to not rebel.
Additionally, governments have more of a track record of blatant disregard of their constituents’ rights, as seen with the U.S.A.'s ostenbible treatment of African Americans with Syphillis in Arkansas, in what actually turned out as the malevolently giving A.A. Syphillis and wickedly watching the disease morph without giving treatment.
When the vast majority of the world is enshrined in liberty and democracy, we must lose this precious moment. If we were to give governments responsibility for our health, we will return to centuries-old autocratic rule.